West Virginia has legalized online casinos and poker sites after Governor Jim Justice allowed HB 2934 to pass into law without his signature yesterday. With this new law, West Virginia becomes the third state in the US with a regulated online gaming industry encompassing the full range of sports betting, casino games and poker.

Utah’s statehouse is set to discuss a number of important bills in coming days, one of them being SB 181 that would create the Pari-Mutuel Horse Racing Commission and legalize betting on horse races. Sponsored by Senator David Hinkins, the bill will be debated by the Senate Natural Resources, Agriculture and Environment Committee later today.

The legal sports betting effort in North Dakota scored a last-minute victory last week after the House of Representatives failed to pass the state’s latest sports betting bill and then reversed its own decision just hours later.

Mobile sports betting could become a reality in Rhode Island after the Ocean State’s Senate voted 31-4 to move the proposal to the House late last week. Under the terms of the bill, sports fans will be able to wager on their mobile devices through the two Twin River casinos in Tiverton and Lincoln.

Is Arizona warming to the idea of legal sports betting? Senator Sonny Borrelli (R-Lake Havasu City) and two other republican lawmakers believe the time is ripe for the Grand Canyon State to take advantage of changes in the US sports betting landscape and tap into a significant new source of tax revenue that Borrelli believes …

The Department of Justice decision to reverse its 2011 interpretation of the Federal Wire Act has, not surprisingly, proven quite unpopular among key lawmakers in states with legal online gambling, sports betting and lotteries.